America’s Next Generation of Socialist Organizers

America’s Next Generation of Socialist Organizers At their 2026 organizing conference, Young Democratic Socialists of America focused on organizing student workers, building campus movements against ICE, and preparing mass action for May Day 2028 to confront Trump’s authoritarianism. This year’s Organizing Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), which Jacobin cosponsored, quickly sold out, drawing more than four hundred young socialists to the “Rooted in Struggle” gathering — a sign of how far the organization has grown since its humble beginnings as the youth section

America’s Next Generation of Socialist Organizers At their 2026 organizing conference, Young Democratic Socialists of America focused on organizing student workers, building campus movements against ICE, and preparing mass action for May Day 2028 to confront Trump’s authoritarianism. This year’s Organizing Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), which Jacobin cosponsored, quickly sold out, drawing more than four hundred young socialists to the “Rooted in Struggle” gathering — a sign of how far the organization has grown since its humble beginnings as the youth section